The River Garden

... , Botswana and Namibia to South Africa to see the animals, scenery and local people. Brother Tim flew into Capetown from London at the end of my overland safari tour and for the next week we drove around South Africa's famous coastal Garden Route

... own meal. We then headed off to the supermarket to pick up supplies to make a pasta and meat sauce. Much like on the garden route in South Africa, we were once again finding ourselves able to cook our own food. What a treat this would be. January ...

... ; Colin, who live in Baldivis. When they moved there, about 11 years ago, the place was a sandpit. They have done wonders with the garden. We had a great chat over a lovely lunch. They are wonderful people who did a lot for me when I was a young tacker in ...

... refused to eat the pasta I made for dinner one night... I guess considering their heritage... that's understandable!) For me the Garden Route was difficult because I did not have my own transportation. Also, I continued to look into trails I had read ...

... and choppy, so we decided not to motor at full speed. It took us another 1.5 hrs to motor to Grief Point, which is where Garden Beach Marina is located. Coming into the dock was a challenge with a 20 knot cross wind that was blowing us off the dock and ...

... to a winding narrow canyon carved into the rock by water. We followed it a long way from the river – eventually reaching a magic little garden and waterfall. Once back on the river it was paddling time, as the current slowed with the widening of ...

... cell phone found a signal. I was going to miss the hiking group as they drove through. Shame - I would've loved to have seen the Garden Route and gone up to Uppington. That's a real shame, but perhaps it's for the best. I really do feel rotten. So it's ...

... a scene from England with rolling hills, very green due to the rainy weather right now, cattle dotting the landscape, wonderful garden with lemon, apple and mandarin orange trees, herbs like bay leaf, oregano, garlic.  Spent the night ...

... . Continuous gusts that render any enjoyment from sitting on the beach hopeless. Back in the town centre I find a pub with a beer garden that looks out over the car park of Dewson's supermarket. Then amble back to base through streets full of blossom ...

... a strange palace and not worth visiting as all it was an entrance shaped like a ghosts mouth and a smallish hall building in a large courtyard garden. That was it. Pretty naff. So I headed back to the boat as we were told to be back on board at 9.30am and ...

... to Storm’s River Village.  A cutely picturesque village.  Checked into Tube n Axe backpackers which had a lovely big garden so perfect for camping, plus it had a bar showing the rugby.  Brumbies were playing so enjoyed a few pints ...

... - that's too much for us! Went for a swim down the road at Miner's Pool, very pleasant little spot, came back and had nice hot showers, a drink in the beer garden, and a roast dinner in the outside restaurant. How nice it was not to cook or wash ...

... cS_XEJou9jg The Bazbus was due to collect me from the jumpsite shortly afterwards for the last time for the long drive along the Garden Route to Cape Town, passing through towns such as Plettenburg Bay, Mossel Bay, George, and Hermanus.  I would have ...

... radish they sell at the farmers markets here are over 2 feet long, a bit bigger than the one inch ones my dad grew in his garden! There is more than enough in one radish to last for lunches for the whole week! 16) Beetroot is something there is a whole ...

... . Got to the Lao border town, and found a nice guest house, Lou was very HAPPY to have a bed! Went to a nice beer garden on the river, with live music & had nice curry & a few beers. Everything closed about 10pm, so ended up back at the guesthouse playing ...

... paved so the car wash I did yesterday went for not! In the end we found ourselves back in the park in Raymond where we enjoyed a garden over the fence from us.  Don was struggling to keep his eyes open so we headed back an he got a few more hours of ...

... , the area around the campsite was  so pretty with its vineyards and orange trees, and the campsite was the back garden of someone's home, with bourganvelia trees everywhere.  Here was our favourite job of truck cleaning, that is done at the end ...

... , the guy on duty changed the TV stations on Liisi and me in the middle of our movie... at least we appreciated O-Town more! Storms River our next stop where we ran into 2 more Aussie GAPs, Sophie and Kiera! They're fantastic! So on Friday we all went ...

... I managed to catch a tree. That afternoon it was so hot we asked whether we could use the neighbouring Lodge’s, River Garden, pool. It was beautiful overlooking the rising Zambezi from an elevated position and the infinity pool with just us in it ...

Today we had a quick morning visit at Kom Ombo, another cool but similar temple with the cool feature of having prayed to crocodiles.  This meant that they also mumified crocodiles and we got to see one. After Kom Ombo the boat headed on to ...